The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 16, 1885, Page 6

Ss . BUTLER WEEKLY TIME J. D. ALLEN Eprror. 7D. Arren & Co., Proprietors, F SUPSCRIPTION: Trucs, published every adaress TERMS O TheWeekry Wednesday, will be sent to ar one vear, postage paid, tor Sr. BUTLER MISSOURI. 16, (8385. WEDNESDAY,, DEC. —_———————————— which The president’s message, was read to congress last week, Was full of good, plain, hard sense and | wracticable suggestions. —S Cot. Crockett, of the Nevada | Democrat, denies the statement that Mayor Gillespie wi l take charge of his paper after his enstallment as P. Mi. at that place. —_—_—_——_— Senatorial candidates announced are; Judge Sherwood, J. N. Burnes and F. M. Cockrell. We would tike to bear from some man that has ot been holding office a lifetime. The gas works at Kansas City vere blown up Tuesday ot Jast week, and tor atime the city left total darkness. Coal oi! lamps and tallow candles were in demand and @ow answer as a substitute. was in The fear oi an cuttresk of the Mormons has caused the govern- enent to dispatch Company D. with 6 field pieces and 400 troops from #t. Omaha. Salt Lake City is now micketed with U S the The Jasper County Dew ocrat says the time has been when he would det up in the midale of the night to work for Frank Cockrel, butcertain developments of late have some- what changed his mind, and he can sow be found on the tence. —— We see trom the Columbia Herald that Capt. J. W, Kneisley, ex rep sesentative of that county, has been appointed custodian of the public Wonder ;f the olé man will it’ to St Lous, as he did to Jefferson the sime he was elected representative ? nurtdings in St Louis. ‘hoof A special dispatch from Washing- son to the Glode-Democrat iounces that in ali probability out ot the nalf dozen senators selected by the president to represent the ad ministration on the floor of the senate, George G. Vest has been chosen the mouth-piece through xhom the president will talk. ————E——— an- The Lamar Democrat thinks Berry Thurman, of that city, will be the next man to keep Judge Burton’s seat warm in the judicial chair ot that circuit. Thurman, Thurman? Well, that isa very familiar name to us and we rather like it. Suppose the democracy of that district try him oneterm. We believe he would suit all nght. Affairs in Utah are taking rather 2 queer turn. The Mormons are <etaliating on the Gentiles for inter fering with their polygamous habits Sy having some of the high ofhcials of the State arrested on the same! charges. This is accomplished by getting women to entice the unsus #ecting officials into torbidcen paths and then *‘chirp” on them. SSS Tax Payer, through the columas ot last week's Rockville Globe, does | considerable figuring in regard to the bonds of that township. Tax | WHIUH SHaLi i 5E? | 7 * a | The boys are beginning to prospec for office in Bates county, Wha shall we have,co1 + Now, that we have got to | ier like the latter the best, bu used it ny plan that wil —De it is abou ot particular; satistacuion. entire yocrat | The Democrat is right; discussed and decided upon by th concerned. The primary and all the cry, which justly so, of rmgs, combinations, it is possible to have frauds in pr- maries—such as repeaters and ale- gal voters,—but if good and compe- tent officers are selected to conduct ! this can be avoided the election Then every democrat has an equal Voice in saying who the party cand few 34 not be date shall be, to vote tor political bosses dictates, and whose aman whom a only qualifications tor office is that he happens to stand in with the rng. We repeat that cither system would be pertectly satisfactory with TIMES; demoeratic party, we to favor the Democrat’s suggestion, and ao not see that the party could but, tor the good o are Comp do better than by retaining the pri mary election system. We hke to hear trou: good democrats ali over the county on this subject. The would y central committee democratic cou: will have jurisdiction in the matter, but of course they will be governed by the wishes of the people. JOHN P- WILLIs- ention or primary -: time that this question was being | system gave very general satisfaction betore nes 1 usually fol- lows a convention, and in most cases trades, etc., was avoided. OF course PRAIBIZ CITY TOWNSHIP BONDS Rockville Globe. The following figures on statements from | I commend of tax-payers. The agent t t ure based ficial suurces. t to the A them caretul con- t | | sideration io d ¢ > for f for Py Pp the bonds seems to be unwilling or e excnan the tow t} | unable to make ot tull Statenient the condit ers entrusted te c T his care an eminently proper j democrat o Se a Baie that tax-payers should take care to lcampaign will, in all probability, j eels i | protect th | oy b ‘ebruary term of} 3 open up by = F ages pine a “ ourt ntact, many oO he) See On ie : the bit | T°"? let who can correct them. If { are alread hamping the bit} : bovs are already ch # sissies I they are substantially correct, if the anxiously awaiting the drumtap| | 4 : Sn eTen aa = : discrepency show s real, let the to be off. The rules governing the | so i I we the people see to it in time. In any] ra to whether we sh 1a h cs : | | Faces as 109 BCEer is of | CVENt It IS the people's ght to know j primary oF convention system, 15 6 ene He Faek O8E j a ce the TIMES, except ‘ eee area I arty 1s | is done with the money: so far as the good of the party 3s; Fae ane canoe nei eee Tebo & Neosho read. Bought in afterwards for. Lei outstanding . Interest at 10 per cent for 14 Interest on certain judgment, 1, had bonds not been compromi } and nothing paid up, 1885 5 ' That is the bonds and interes: | would have reached that amount if | the compromise bonds of 1883 had not bee ade ' r paid i Iu; i S ° | i Nov ike comproniise ie i | 334-4 oo, and amounts paid ex J cept taxes of 1883 and 1554, and bonds outstanding and see wht atuount ef onginal yow J represcut Piurty tour thousand beoks ynise bonds s 1 $45-333 lot « al debt To nshap nthe sale of its stock 1, about $ ),000, Which should ied on the debt atter would compromise and extinguish $12,000 of old debt. In 1881 J was paid on the Harris judgment | $885 65. There are still outstanding bonds of 1870 unco f } \ $5.000 of vid promysed and t Interest nu htigation. on these bonds 14 Years, $7,000. nounts astollows: compromise Tabulate these 2 | Debt extinguished. t bonds . Debt extinguished by procecds of Debt extingwished payment o} 4 ock 12,000.60 ¢ - = judgment + 855.65, On Menday last Colonel! Elijah | ponds or ist: outstanding ... eeee 5,000.00 Gates, United States Marshal, ap- | Interest 10 percent for 14 years........ 7,000.00 pointed John P. Wills his first or OCR oo sss cscs see co $70,218.65 circuit deputy Marshal, ile was} Thats to say, our compromise sworn in before the U. S. Circuit | bonds and payments added to bonds Court and commissioned the same | and interest yet outstanding repre- day. Thisis appuint- ment tor Mr. Wilhs, and the people of Bates county irrespective ot pol tics will rejoice over his success, Mr. Willis is a live energetic man, a splendid sent an original indebtedness of $70,218. 65, $13,218. 65 greater than the bonds of 1371 and interest have had there been no adjustment of the which is would reached a sterling democrat, generous to aj debt. fault and is as brave as a lion in the Let the people see to it and find discharge of his duties, and will nev- er falter or shirk no matter how haz- ardous the undertaking. Col. Gates could not have selected a better man ! for the position or one who would have given better satisfaction tthe people ot Bates county. Mr. Wills was a prominent candidate for the Marshalship and was strongly recom- mended from all over the State. The Times greatly rejorces over the recognition ot a Bates county man and heartily congratulates Mr. Wil- lis on his appointment. = NOT JIM BLAINE. The appointment of Mr. Garth settles the fact that Judge Gantt, ot Henry county, will be in the field for congress nent fall,and :t is well known that he will worry the modern Cicero ot the Southwest no little in the nominating Conventiou. Mr. Stone’s popularity does not rest on as bigha plane as it did one year ago, and it appearances denote anything he will never write a book entitled “Twenty years in Congress’’—or even four years.— Appleton City Journal. Judge Gantt has # host of warm Payer thinks that, instead of de- j friends throughout this county, who creasing their township indebtedness | 272 only waiting for him to Say the! by compromising, they have in- ia da word and h: brush. Bates county creased it, and shows that the town- | “tll not be alone, the bands will be- * 1 ship wotld have been better off to} have pa:d dollac for dollar. The Globe should urge its people to drop this financial agency business | and let the county court attend to their business, and save the township | that useless expenditure ot a com-! earssion of 22) per centtoatnancial | agent. This township, which we helieve is in about the same fix a «egard to the compromise of i her} wonds as Prairie. saved, through the | that it w j POse, in the Senate, Mr. Cleveland’s g:n to play all ale the linc. —————— Phere is a strong undercurrent: at work among the republicans to op- ppointees who were put in ove displaced ns republic Only a few isolated cases of the kind | ed & ed for. and Se tor just This 49th Congress is very th may be look cause. Similar to its predecessors im the tact | ot wilfully forethought and sirategy ot a few ot ‘ously tample upon established mer citizens,the snug sum ot between Signage . i _— “ ae three and four thousand dollars, ihody. ee which was on the road to pockets | ue She iets making the Congress iS even assisting thei j blind, Rev. W. H. Milburn, the county court attend to the business | themselves. i i noted bhnd been preacher ot Chicago, has | chosen chaplain et the house. i We opine: = Re ’ H j (Qat this isenly a false alarm, and and malic-! out the truth in the premises. The longer it 1s put off the more difticult it will be to get a proper understand- ing of the matter. Delay is danger- TAXPAYER. If the above statement is correct, | the tax payers of that territory should calla hait im proceedings and de- mand an investigation ; if not correct, jthe financial agent, Mr. Catron, should explain away discrepencies. | In either event it is but justice to these people that a full and com- pletegstatement ot this whole affair, from the issue of the bonds to the compromise recently consumated, be made out by the financial agent and submitted§to them ; then, if there has been any traud in the management, } itcan easily be discovered. Ous. Vanderbilt’s will has been almited Date. He bequeaths to each of } his eight children ten milion dollars. | Elis widow gets the dwelling house in which they have recently been living, vorks of es, horses, harness, carriage } ot $250,- | nearly $r.- institutions H ' }o pro i | household goods, fart, st pes, &e., and an annuity looo. He also gives | 000,000 to charitable | The remainder ot his fortune is to j Be divided between Conelius and j Wo. K, Vanderbilt. He was repre sented to be the richest man in the world. Sim Jones, wt holding his allusions | to the governor ot this state, speaks In making { meetings in St. Louis, {ot him aya ‘-awill tab.” fsuch remarks ubout the governor, We do not think Sammy is raising himselt any in the estimation of the peopte er as se he represents. iarity is the maine spring of christianity and net slang Col. E Gates. ot St joseph, the newly elected Unite States marshal, has filed his bool 40,- 000 with the cle United States court at Ka WE HAVE PLACED OUR Damaged Stock on Sal T-H-E-Y M-U-S-T 6-0 AS WE HAVE TO GET RID 0. ALL IMPERFECT GOODS.